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Tumoral Calcinosis: An Uncommon Cause for a Mass in a Reconstructed Breast
Eugene Koh1, Nicola R Dean1, David I Watson1
1Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Flinders Medical Centre, Bedford Park, South Australia, Australia; Department of Surgery, Department of Anatomical Pathology, SA Pathology, and Department of Pathology, Flinders University, Bedford Park, South Australia, Australia.
Abstract:
Tumoral calcinosis is a rare clinical and histopathological syndrome whose exact etiology is unknown. We present a case of a 57-year-old woman who presents with a painful lump in her right chest after bilateral breast reconstructions for bilateral asynchronous breast cancers. It is important to be aware of all possible differential diagnoses in a patient presenting with a chest mass after mastectomy and reconstruction for breast cancer as not all lesions of this type represent recurrent cancer.
